belite

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See also: bělíte

English

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Etymology

Named by Törnebohm in 1897 after examining Portland cement through a microscope.

Noun

belite (uncountable)

  1. An industrial mineral made up of primarily of dicalcium silicate.
    • 2020 September 22, G. Habert, S. A. Miller, V. M. John, J. L. Provis, A. Favier, A. Horvath & K. L. Scrivener, “Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries”, in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment‎:
      After heating in the kiln, the melted material is cooled rapidly to form an assemblage of the silicates alite (also known by the cement chemistry notation C3S) and belite (C2S), tricalcium aluminate (C3A) and tetracalcium aluminoferrite (C4AF), known as clinker.

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

belite (Cyrillic spelling белите)

  1. inflection of beleti:
    1. second-person plural present
    2. second-person plural imperative

Verb

belite (Cyrillic spelling белите)

  1. inflection of beliti:
    1. second-person plural present
    2. second-person plural imperative
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